Equally terrifying and beautiful, Minsu Kim’s project Living Food speculates a future of engineered eating experiences where the food acts like living organisms. The conceptual menu features dancing fritters and softly breathing desserts. Though not technically feasible at this moment in time, Kim’s project is rooted in the weird science of synthetic biology.

Automobiles are no longer the relatively simple machines they once were. Modern cars have so many computer networks jammed under the hood that it’s a miricle that they don’t have more failures and crashes. Pointing towards a dystopian future of a hackable internet of things, a DARPA funded hacker duo has proven that they can take FULL control over cars such as the Ford Escape and Toyota Prius.

File under mind expansion. Venkatesh Rao’s writing breaks down and exposes common cultural assumptions, connecting the dots between technology, modern culture and history. Bonus reading: The American Cloud, an exploration of sleek reality interfaces and the massive, very real, very drab, very physical infrastructures behind them.

A series of wearable digital instruments from McGill University’s Input Devices and Music Interaction Lab allow dancers to create sound based on the movements of the body. The devices are created using 3D printing and include an articulating spine, visor, and ribs.